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M. FREUND. BELT AND SKIRT ATTACHMENT.

No. 546,920. Patented Sept. 24, 1895.

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BELT AND SKIRT ATTACHMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent 1%. 546,920, dated September 24, 1895.

A plication filed July 3, 1895. Serial No. (N0 model!) To aZZ whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MAX FREUND, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Belt and Skirt Attachments, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide a belt and skirt attachment which is capable of being readily mounted and dismounted; and the invention resides in the novel features of construction set forth in the following specification and claims, and illustrated in the annexed drawings, in which- Figure 1 shows the attachment on a belt. Fig. 2 is a section along 00 a:,Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a rear elevation of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a sectional view of a modification.

The belt 1 is adapted to be clasped or secured in place on the person in any suitable way. On the belt is a slide or buckle comprising the plates or members 2 and 3, adapted to clasp or surround the belt or to sit on opposite sides of the belt. The slide or attachment 2 3 is shown with a cross-bar 4:, having a fasten in g 5, such as a safety-pin, for holding up a skirt or other article of apparel. The slide part 3 has a loose or opening end or portion 6, which when released from the catch or shoulder 7, forming a part of the plate or memher 2, will allow the slide to be readily dismounted from the belt or slipped onto a belt without taking the belt off or without it being necessary to free one end of the belt from the clasp or fastening by which the belt is held closed.

By making the part 3 of springy material the portion 6 will normally spring or move to openlng or releasing position when the part 3 is freed from catch 7.

Of course the invention is not confined to the exact construction shown, as modifications can be made which arewithin the scope of the invention, as, for example, in Fig. 4c the part 3' is shown with its part or free end 6 adapted to catch over a part of one end of the plate or member 2 instead of a special catch 7 being provided on the plate or member 2, as in Fig. 2.

In Fig. 2 the space between the outer parts or bars 2 is shown filled by a piece or panel 8, while the space between bars 2 in Fig. 4 is left open. All such modifications are within the scope of the invention.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A belt slide, consisting of a rigid base plate 2 and an elastic plate 3 joined at one end to the base plate and having at its opposite end acatch which springs into and out of engagement with apart of the base plate, said plates being arranged relatively to each other to receive between them a belt, and saidelastic plate being adapted to be opened by disengaging its catch from the rigid base plate, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

2. A belt slide, consisting of the rigid base plate 2 having at one end a cross-bar 4 provided with a safety pin 5, and an elastic plate 3 joined at one end to the base plate and provided at its opposite end with a catch constructed, substantially as set forth, to spring into and out of engagement with a part of the base plate, said plates being relatively arranged to receive a belt between them, and said elastic plate springing open when its catch is disengaged from the base plate, substantially as and for the purposes described In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

MAX FREUND.

Witnesses:

WM. 0. HAUFF, E. F. KASTENHUBER. 

